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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:08 AM

Game Recommendation : LEGO Battles for Nintendo DS

As promised, I did receive LEGO Battles for Fathers Day – so I wanted to share my enthusiasm for this game.  My sons have both been into LEGO for a few years – and of course, I played with them when I was a kid. We have collectively played through
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:39 AM

Game Recommendation – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

If you have read the series – this is a ‘ must play’.   A t least for a while… This particular Harry Potter game is based on the fifth book of the Harry Potter book series – the Order of the Phoenix. As with the book, the game starts out at
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Monday, April 27, 2009 4:44 PM

Two new ways to follow Jason on DPM and Gaming

Hello friends, First and foremost, thank you to all of those that read this blog.  It’s been an enjoyable way for me to share information (and my opinions) and I hope you’ve enjoyed them as well. Easily one of the most cool things that happens to
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:41 PM

LEGO Rock Band Announced

Earlier today, it was announced that: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and TT Games have joined forces with the LEGO Group, Harmonix and MTV Games to merge two of the most popular videogame franchises with the creation of LEGO® Rock Band® . The
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:14 AM

Xbox Live – Family Game Night - TONIGHT

Have you ever played Scrabble or Battleship with someone 1000 miles away?   Me neither – let’s try it !!   A few weeks ago, the fun folks at Electronic Arts teamed with Hasbro to release several classic board games for the Xbox 360. 
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 10:24 PM

Xbox Family Game Recommendation – Family Game Night by Hasbro

FINALLY !! Old fashioned family games -- on Xbox!! The classics -- Yahtzee, Scrabble, Connect Four, Sorry, Battleship, and others... This month, on Xbox Live Marketplace Arcade, Hasbro released a really cool shell, where you will find yourself in a game
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Monday, March 16, 2009 1:01 AM

Xbox Family Game Recommendation – Crash of the Titans

In my opinion, Crash is one of the less appreciated kid-gaming characters out there. Sure, we've all heard of Sonic and Mario, but Crash the Bandicoot? Why not ?! Crash of the Titans is the first Crash title that I've played (though my boys have played
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Monday, March 09, 2009 5:19 PM

Xbox Game -- Rise of the Argonauts

I must admit that I have been looking forward to this game for a while. Of course, I am big fan of RPG style games, but a few things made this one special from the beginning: Instead of the generic middle-earth or Dungeons&Dragons type world, this
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:15 PM

Fun and Free Xbox Arcade game -- Dash of Destruction

Add a Dash of Giggles Another Dash of Loud Laughter Plus a Dash of " No, don't eat my truck with your dinosaur " That's how you get a " Dash of Destruction " -- and now you know what my house has sounded like since my sons and I downloaded
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Monday, December 01, 2008 9:44 AM

Xbox Dad -- where did you go?

It's actually a rhetorical question -- effective December 1st, Xbox.com has retired the 'Xbox Dad' persona/column on family gaming.  My sincerest thanks to the original Xbox Dad (Duncan) for sharing his column with me this year -- and to the folks
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:01 AM

NXE is here - and my kids are loving the Avatars

Most of you know that aside from my vocational passion around Data Protection and Storage Solutions for Windows servers ... my vice is video gaming, particularly with my family. And in that vein, the kind folks at xbox.com have been letting me co-write
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Monday, June 16, 2008 6:16 AM

What one Xbox Dad got for Father's Day

This weekend was Fathers’ Day in the US – and I have three loving children (and a wife) who know that their daddy is an avid gamer. So, I thought I would share what I got for Fathers’ Day as an XboxDad . I did get some of the standard Fathers’ Day fare
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:39 AM

XBOX DAD post -- the power of Windows Home Server with an Xbox 360

As you may have seen in some of my other gaming posts, I love it when my favorite things overlap - e.g. Star Wars and Video Games. In this month's Xbox Dad article , my Windows Home Server hooked up with my Xbox360 and effect was beautiful (literally),
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:44 PM

What do the Fantastic Four, Harry Potter and DPM 2007 have in common ?

Answer - I wrote about all of them today. But since I am publishing in different places, I am posting a set of links for those that are interested. The topics are varied, so please read or ignore as you see fit. :-) XBOX DAD Recommendation for the Fantastic
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:27 AM

I am an Xbox Dad !

If you have been reading my blog for a while, you know that the only thing I enjoy more than Data Protection and storage technologies is gaming -- and specifically family gaming is an area that I think is less covered than it should be. Well, the kind
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